Overgarment.



D. l. BARRETT. OVERGARMENT.

, APPLICATION FILED'IUNE 7. l9]?- Patented Sept. 3, 1918.

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D. l. BARRETT.

OVERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1. I917.

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DAISY J. BARRETT, or F UsHING, NEW YORK.

OVERGARMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAISY J. BARRETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Flushing, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overgarments,

of which the following is a specification,

novel part of the inventionis applied to the,

lower or skirt portion of the, garment.

One object of my invention is to provide a convertible over-garment which, when not desired to be worn in the specialmanner provided by my mvention, may be used as an ordinary duster, cloak, skirt or other full or half-length garment; and as designed my garment may be. converted from one form to the other whilebeing worn. When worn according to this invention the garment provides underneath inclosure by means of the convertible fabric members, so

that the usual dress and petticoats are com-- pletely protected against dust, dirt and disturbance by the wind or otherwise. As an instance of the utility of my novel overgarment'I, refer to the case of a woman automobilist, who may be compelled to crawl beneath the vehicle for repair of the machinery, and who before doing so can convert the garment to give the complete underneath protection mentioned.

To the attainmentof theabove described ob]ects and advantages my invention con; sists in the novel over-garment described,

illustrated and claimed herein 5. of which for purposes of illustration a specific embodiment will be shownand described.

In the accompanying drawings showing one form in'which the invention may be constructed, Figure 1 is an interior face view of the garment detachedand spread out flatwise in open position.

Fig. 2 shows a pattern that may con} wardly andopen across the top side.

veniently be employed for making the special interior fabric pieces.

Fig. 3 shows a transverse vertical cross section of the novel portion of the garment.

, F ig. 4: in exterior view shows the garment in use.

Specifically, my convertible over-garment comprises, in combination with the skirt portion, two separate fabric members secured to the inner face of the skirt, one at the right and the other at the left side;- these members being preferably pocket-like and separately formed, and, while made from gathered or extensible material, adapted to lie flat against the skirt .interior in ordinary wear; and said two members being also adapted to be mutually detachably con nected along their upper inner edges for the special purpose of constituting protective members located wholly between the ankle Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept, 3, 191 8, Application filed June 7, 1917. Serial No. 173,274. I

and knee of the wearer, each member being centrally apertured to receive the ankle. This portion of the garment. is quite unlike ordinary bloomers, but for convenience of expression each of the separate pocket-like fabric members may be termed abloomer, although its preferred use is wholly adjacent to theankle, so that the garment may be, worn over the usual full-length dress, pettic0ats,-etc. In the accompanying drawings a fulllength garment or duster 6 is shown, of which, however, mainly the skirt portion 7 concerns the present invention. The gar ment has a line of buttons 8 and button, holes 9 down the front, as usual, and at the top of theskirt portion is an encirclingtape or strap 10, which might be employed as a belt when the invention is applied only to a short-length garment or skirt. r :Permanently secured to the interior face of the skirt 7 above thewearers left foot is the fabric piece'12, and a similar fabric piece 13 is at the .right'side. These are shown out of use in Fig. 1, where they appear as pocket-like members, and, in order which can be readjusted for the special use of the garment. Each pocket-like fabric memberor bloomer, as seen in Fig. 1, is of a substantially semicircular or segmental shape, with-itsbowed orcurved-side down= Such an arrangement in gathered rm may be is centrally apertured, as shown at 15, the

aperture being provided with elastic means,

so that it will pass over the foot' and snugly surround the ankle. I V

The two pocket-like fabric members 12 and 13 are preferably entirely separate members, as shown. Each is formed with an upper edge 16, and the curved or downwardly bowed edge 17, along which the fabric is gathered for the purposesmentioned.

Each separate fabric member or bloomer, as it may be termed, 1s shown permanently secured, namely, bya line of stitching 18, along the entire curved edge 17 to the in teri'or of the skirt 7, thus giving the pocketlike effect referred to.

The top edge 16, however, is notperm'anently stitched or fastened to the skirt. If the fabric is suitably formed, the member will tend to retain its fiatwise position against the interior of the skirt, as shown in Fig.1, but in some cases I prefer to de tachably fasten the upper edge 16 to the skirt, and for this purpose a series of fasteners 19 are'shown at the inside 'of edge 16 adapted to engage with complementary fasteners 20 on the skirt 7 By. detachable fasteners I refer to ball-and-socket, hook and-eye, or other available fastening devices.

In order to convert the garment for the special protective uses referred to, a series of'detachable fasteners 21 is shown along the top edge of the fabric member 12, adapted to engage with a similar series of complementary fasteneres 22 along the upper edge of the member 13, so that the two separate pocket-like fabric members may be mutually detachably connected along their top edges, so that each in effect becomes a short-length bloomer located near the ankle and below the knee, and the two mutually inter-connecting along a fore-and-aft center line, so as to give the complete underneath ipclosure described.

When the special fabric members are not in use, their top edges 16 take a curved horizontal position conforming with the contour of the skirt. verted, this horizontally curved edge reisswung from the periphery toward the center, and at the same time, owing to its extended length, is able to curve or bow downwardly, so that the lineof union between the interconnected bloomers sags downwardly, thus accommodating itself to the wearers petticoats, dress, etc. The result is Copies of this patentmay be obtained for'flve'cents each,'by addressing i 'Wsshingtoinn 0.

When the garment is COD- a most easy and comfortable arrangement, in which the usual clothing retains its natural position, but is entirely inclosed beneath, while the combined fabric members 12 and 13, owing to the dip referred to and the downwardly curved connecting stitchingv to the skirt, gives great comfort and freedom of movement in walking, etc.

- In ordinary use the pocket-like fabric members will remain out of the way and unseen in the position shown in Fig. 1, in which the upper edges 16 may be secured by the fasteners 19, 20, if desired. The garment may be converted while being worn, and this will be accomplished by opening the front of the skirt, and then detaching the upper edge of fabric member from the skirt, and raising the foot and inserting it through the ankle hole 15, after which the two members will be detachably fastened together along the line of fasteners 21, 22, and'finally the skirt buttoned completely down thefront, giving the result as seen in Fig; 4.

It will thus be seen that I have described a convertible over-garment for womens wear embodying the features ofimprovement and attaining the objects and advantages of thepresent invention, and other advantages which will be apparent to those using the garment. Since many matters of mere pattern, design, arrangement, proportion, combination, details and other features may be variously modified without departing from the principle, involved, no limitation to such features is intended excepting in so far as set forth in the appended claims.

I What is "claimed is: p

1. An over-garment, having a skirt, at each interior side of which is permanently secured a pocket-like member adapted to form a short bloomer, said two bloomers having readily applied fastening means by which they can be detachably fastened to each other along a fore-and-aft line, and each bloomer having readily applied fastening means by which it may be detachably fastened against the inner face of the skirt when not in use.

.2. An overgarment, having a skirt, at each interior side of which is permanently secured a gathered fabric member of a substantially segment shape with the curved side downward, open across the top side and provided with an ankle hole, and means for readily detachably securing the two mem DAISY J. BARRETT.

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